Desiree’s teaching style grew from her personal practice of healing and managing CPTSD through yogic practices. Rather than pushing intensity or performance, she focuses on helping students slow down, feel comfortable, and reconnect with themselves at their own pace. Her classes emphasize ease, choice, and deep rest, making them especially supportive for beginners.
Desiree began her yoga journey in 2013 and immediately fell in love, as she felt she had found the missing spiritual piece in her life that she was looking for. She sees yoga as a path of connectivity with the Divine – the innate essence within that connects all living things. Desiree teaches that yoga isn’t something you only do on your yoga mat, but is a lifelong practice of embodying the 8 Limbs of Yoga* into everyday life off the mat. She is passionate about teaching others how to heal themselves through yogic and holistic practices and making it accessible to EVERY body.
Her training includes 200-hour Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher Training from I AM YOGA CLT (Charlotte, North Carolina), 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training (Tantric Studies) from Vira Bhava Yoga (Asheville, North Carolina), Reiki Certification from All Things Spiritual (Charlotte, North Carolina), and Trauma Informed training from The Prison Yoga Project (Los Angeles, CA).
Desiree is a highly intuitive energy healer and also offers Multi Vibrational Healing - an energy-healing approach that combines the principles of Tantra, Reiki, Quantum Field Healing, Aromatherapy, Shamanic Methods, Sound Healing, and Crystal Therapy to unlock the body's full healing potential. Desiree believes our bodies possess an inherent ability to heal themselves, and this healing process is influenced by thoughts, beliefs and intentions. Desiree guides you through a stress relieving 1:1 session with meditation, light touch and several other modalities to release old stored energy and stress from your body. This gentle yet multifaceted approach works with the body's natural energy systems to alleviate stress and anxiety, restore balance, and support overall well-being.
* The eight limbs of yoga, as outlined in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, are a comprehensive guide to a yogic life, encompassing ethical disciplines, physical practices, and mental and spiritual development. They are: Yama (moral disciplines), Niyama (observances), Asana (postures), Pranayama (breath control), Pratyahara (sense withdrawal), Dharana (concentration), Dhyana (meditation), and Samadhi (absorption or enlightenment).